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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    What roll does Sasha Grey play in the movie? #neuromancer
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/17/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: "Buttered." said the fat man who smelled of Marlon Brando........ #neuromancer
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    Will we get a review of Sasha Grey's Neuromancer project?

    EDIT: Just read the updates on that post. Not sure there could be much of a review with a straight reading of Neuromancer...but it still sounds pretty damn cool.
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    Edited by Ruthless, If you let me at 11/16/09 12:04 PM Ruthless, If you let me was starred Ruthless, If you let me was unstarred
    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    does he wake up in the real world? #neuromancer
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    11/16/09

    @Byronotron: ugh, i felt so dirty after that comment. #neuromancer
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/16/09

    @Byronotron: Actually, he wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleschette.

    Ah, ask your parents. #neuromancer
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    11/16/09

    @Wookie1972: i know what newhart is. #neuromancer
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    why couldn't the ending just be one phone call between case and wintermute/neuromancer kinda / pauley where the AI says hi, asked where molly went, case asks what wintermute/neuromancer kinda /pauley is, the AI responds with some enigmatic line about the sum of all the parts, then laughs in an oddly creepy, completly inhuman way, that reminds case of pauley, which slowly fades to static while the image fades to static with it. (the movie should obviously open with pure static that gradually fades into a gray sky that looks so similar it's hard to tell when it stopped being static and became a sky). #neuromancer
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/17/09

    @tetracycloide: Can we make the static 3D? #neuromancer
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    Image of Yellowphant Yellowphant
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    Just as long as it doesn't end with Ice-T. #neuromancer
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    Ah, but how does it open? I want to see the sky tuned to a dead channel.

    Little nervous about this. Dude's only done one feature, and it was Torque. Apparently, though, he's a major Blade Runner fan, so at least it will look interesting.

    I'm also waiting for if and when it finally does come out for somebody to say "hey, this is just a ripoff of Strange Days and the Matrix! Cameron and the Wachowskis should sue!"

    *cough* #neuromancer
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/16/09

    @Wookie1972: me too, i haven't punched someone square in the nose in far far too long. #neuromancer
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/16/09

    @tetracycloide: For a second I thought you were going to punch me. In any case, I read Neuromancer long after Matrix and Strange Days came out, and I thought, "boy, Gibson is way too nice, considering he didn't sue their asses." I did read an interview where he said he thought the Matrix owed more to PKD, however.

    He was in town a couple years ago, and a friend wanted to take his DVD of the Matrix and get it autographed. I think Gibson would laugh. Maybe. #neuromancer
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/17/09

    @Wookie1972: Did he take his Terminator DVD to get it autographed by Uncle Harlan?
    Where's he buried?
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/17/09

    @SJ_Edwards: He's a smartass, but he's not stupid.

    The line from Gibson about the Matrix was something like "it was a PKD story with Neuromancer's fashion sense." I think he's a little more stoical about it than Ellison was about Terminator. (at the very least the Wachowskis didn't go around bragging about how they stole the idea).

    As well, if Gibson was indeed going to sue, he'd have to wait in line behind Grant Morrison and that lady who actually did sue. #neuromancer
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/17/09

    @Wookie1972: I like that line :)
    [well it's Gibson, isn't it?]

    I think he was always much more concious of his role in drawing on the cultural zeitgeist of '70s and '80s British tribal and punk ethos, that he had immersed himself in when he was a voracious reader of the NME (New Musical Express) and the cross cultural influences on that, from Japanese pop and pre-otaku subculture and Californian surfer, skater, tech and geek subcultures and the feedback loop between them all.

    Now he can afford (morally, and hopefully financially) to just shrug and say to himself:

    It was there at the start,
    I was one of the first to realize it,
    I was one of the first to write it,
    In writing it I changed it,
    I made it something more.
    That's what's there at the start for others. #neuromancer
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    It occurs to me that I should probably re-read this book. #neuromancer
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    Hey, it worked for The 400 Blows.

    I always thought the ending was more of a white-out kinda thing. #neuromancer
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    everyone knows that any Neuromancer movie should end with a star wipe...

    amatures. #neuromancer
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    Image of 0kami 0kami
    11/12/09

    In reply to Six Hours Of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey As Molly
    I'm not sure how legal it would be, but I really hope someone get's a video of this. #neuromancer
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/12/09

    In reply to Six Hours Of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey As Molly
    i don't care if they do porn or not.doesnot matter to me as i am an adult.i donot watch porn movies but to each his own they say.
    i am glad though to see another porn star getting legit non-porn scifi work.
    and yes if you watch the pg version of the porn trek xxx movie it is pretty cool what they did.a fun parody of a fun show. #neuromancer
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    11/12/09

    In reply to Six Hours Of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey As Molly
    CJA, had to tease by putting Sasha Grey's name in the title eh? #neuromancer
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    Image of gd01skorpius gd01skorpius
    11/12/09

    In reply to Six Hours Of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey As Molly
    I like to keep an open mind about these things. Being in porn should not be a barrier of entry for so-called "legitimate" acting. Also, Sasha Grey was pretty funny in this "PG porno" (NSFW for language and inuendo, but no nudity or sex): [www.spike.com] #neuromancer
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    11/12/09

    In reply to Six Hours Of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey As Molly
    When I read, "How exactly does Case manage to last six hours?" my mind went to a naughty place.

    That said, this story made my brain bleed a little. #neuromancer
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    11/12/09

    @TrueCrime: Ha yeah... it might have helped if I'd remembered to italicize Case... blame Fleshbot party hangover! #neuromancer
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    Image of Dash_Stryker Dash_Stryker
    11/12/09

    In reply to Six Hours Of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey As Molly
    How does one take someone seriously, knowing they have been in a movie called "first in my ass then in my mouth 9."? #neuromancer
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/12/09

    @Dash_Stryker: I would take such a person pretty damn seriously. I mean, they're obviously not fucking around. #neuromancer
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/12/09

    @Dash_Stryker: And besides, 9 is generally considered to have been a return to the emotional depth and directorial clarity that made the original trilogy such a critical success. #neuromancer
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/12/09

    @Moff: I think it's pretty obvious that they are fucking around. That's the whole point of a movie like that, isn't it? #neuromancer
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/12/09

    @Dash_Stryker: WHAT?! You probably prefer von Stroheim's Greed to Murnau's The Last Laugh, too. Philistine.

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: I dunno. I've always felt like ATM is really taking it to another level. #neuromancer
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